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<blockquote data-quote="yorke-1" data-source="post: 2634492" data-attributes="member: 11960"><p>I just reached out to a guy who bought one of my old Savage 99s in 300 Savage and had him measure the internal mag length. He said it has an internal length of 2.810". That makes sense since the gun needs to handle the 308 and 358 Win as well. I just measured the COAL of a 161 Haymaker loaded in the 300 Savage and I'm at 2.765". That should fit just fine in the 99's magazine. There's one possible issue resolved!</p><p></p><p>The twist rate will probably be an issue. I'm pretty sure Savage used a 1:12 for all their 30 caliber barrels. That'll take the Haymaker off the list.</p><p></p><p>I won't speak for Mark, and he's probably going to cringe when he reads this, but I wouldn't worry too much about changing the seating depth to make the Afterburners work with the short neck on the 300 Savage. I've been shooting the Afterburners seated to a COAL of 2.645" in the 300 Savage and they've been doing well. I can see where you could have runout issues caused by the short neck, but honestly, a model 99 isn't going to be a benchrest gun no matter what you do. LOL I'd grab some of the 135gr Afterburners and give it a go!</p><p></p><p>These are the 153's loaded in a 300 Blackout, 300 Savage, and the 300 RUM. The projection length is the same for the 135gr version, so this will give you an idea of what you'd see with the 135s. The COAL is actually pretty short. Ignore the ring on loaded 300 Blackout. The seating stem on my dies is terrible and I just haven't had the time or motivation to polish it. It does that to any bullet I seat in the Blackout. Of course, the compressed powder charge doesn't help!</p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/0NID2XO.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p></p><p>I'm not sure why the image keeps getting scaled up so big!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="yorke-1, post: 2634492, member: 11960"] I just reached out to a guy who bought one of my old Savage 99s in 300 Savage and had him measure the internal mag length. He said it has an internal length of 2.810". That makes sense since the gun needs to handle the 308 and 358 Win as well. I just measured the COAL of a 161 Haymaker loaded in the 300 Savage and I'm at 2.765". That should fit just fine in the 99's magazine. There's one possible issue resolved! The twist rate will probably be an issue. I'm pretty sure Savage used a 1:12 for all their 30 caliber barrels. That'll take the Haymaker off the list. I won't speak for Mark, and he's probably going to cringe when he reads this, but I wouldn't worry too much about changing the seating depth to make the Afterburners work with the short neck on the 300 Savage. I've been shooting the Afterburners seated to a COAL of 2.645" in the 300 Savage and they've been doing well. I can see where you could have runout issues caused by the short neck, but honestly, a model 99 isn't going to be a benchrest gun no matter what you do. LOL I'd grab some of the 135gr Afterburners and give it a go! These are the 153's loaded in a 300 Blackout, 300 Savage, and the 300 RUM. The projection length is the same for the 135gr version, so this will give you an idea of what you'd see with the 135s. The COAL is actually pretty short. Ignore the ring on loaded 300 Blackout. The seating stem on my dies is terrible and I just haven't had the time or motivation to polish it. It does that to any bullet I seat in the Blackout. Of course, the compressed powder charge doesn't help! [IMG]https://i.imgur.com/0NID2XO.jpg[/IMG] I'm not sure why the image keeps getting scaled up so big! [/QUOTE]
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